Former political candidate Krystal Ball is one of the new political commentators on MSNBC”s Dylan Ratigan Show. This time a year ago, Ball was challenging an incumbent Republican for a house district seat that included a little chunk of Prince William County in the Montclair area. Krystal Ball was just sticking a toe in the political water when a big bad alligator or two tried to nip it off.
The Washington Post:
For Ball, those two appearances book-ended a strange year-long journey: from little-known Virginia congressional candidate to infamous Internet sensation to professional pundit, opining on nearly every subject on the news.
Ball has become a fixture on MSNBC, with a freshly inked contract to serve as a “contributor” and go-to “Democratic strategist” on the network. She appears to have a bright future in the world of political media.
Celebrity works in funny ways, and Ball acknowledged she wouldn’t be on the right path now if she had not become famous for the wrong reasons a year ago.
“I don’t think I would have ended up going in this direction,” Ball said, if she had not been the subject of an online controversy. “Because that was what got me on to a lot of these programs and sort of got me in the loop, and then after the campaign was over, they just kept asking me back.”
